Taint the Rugby World Cup by irresponsible profiteering within any aspect of hosting the event as a nation and we'll suffer badly.

Hail the Warriors - but our befuddled league club should think again before getting too smug.

Check out NZ rugby, now that the master Crusaders coach has gone. You'll find one sick puppy, a sad mob of Super 14 lost souls.

David Kennedy, chief executive of Eden Park Trust, writes about a new stadium 'experience' in store for sports fans.

Melbourne’s salary cap rort is confirmation that league is rotten to the core, writes Gregor Paul.

I apologise to the Maori people and the rugby players involved for the disgraceful injustice visited upon them between 1928 and 1960.

Gregor Paul highlights 10 players who have pushed their claims for higher honours in the first half of Super 14.

It's the halfway point in the Super 14. Gregor Paul looks at the New Zealand franchises who could produce our worst result since 2001.

It's official. The Blues are ... the same old Blues, unfortunately. In other words, they are not going to win the Super 14 title this year.

Paul Thomas writes that while Carl Hayman mightn't give a hoot about it now, his folk hero status here is likely to diminish.